ICE Director Puts Blame on ‘Radical Left’ Politicians for 800 Percent Spike in Attacks on ICE

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Two months ago, violent riots broke out in America’s second largest city after immigration enforcement officers served legal warrants, signed by a judge, to individuals in this country illegally. 

The rioters, which the media assured you were ‘mostly peaceful,’ laid siege to federal buildings, attacked law enforcement officers, lit cop cars on fire, and looted businesses for days—all while flying the flag of a foreign country. Of course, we’re talking about the Los Angeles riots, so we’ll let you guess what flag they were flying.

These anarchists seemed well organized and well funded. Things got so out of control in Los Angeles, in fact, that the president called in 2,000 national guardsmen and hundreds of Marines.

Yet, somehow, just two months later, the country has completely moved on. But it’s really worth reflecting on the LA riots and what inspired them because if anarchists can destroy city blocks under a foreign flag, you actually don’t have a sovereign country.

Acting ICE Director Todd Lyons comes on “The Signal Sitdown” this week to do just that. Lyons is an Air Force veteran with over 25 years of law enforcement experience, and almost 20 of those years have been with ICE. He knows what he’s talking about when it comes to enforcing federal law.

And for Lyons and the agents under his command, the LA riots were just the tip of the iceberg. Since the Trump administration entered into office, attacks on ICE agents have increased over 800 percent.

“It is the worst I’ve ever seen in my whole career in law enforcement,” Lyons told The Daily Signal about the attacks on ICE agents. “I get asked a lot of time, ‘what’s the one thing that keeps you up at night?’ It’s the violence and the attacks on officers, agents, and not only them, but their families.”

Meanwhile, the number of attacks on ICE agents, “just continues to rise,” Lyons said.

And Democrats on the local, state, and federal level have cheered on, and sometimes participated in, these attacks—and that’s not an exaggeration. 

?”Not only is it harmful to the mission, it’s harmful to the communities that they are supposed to be leading and supporting,” Lyons said of these politicians. 

?”When you do have these, you know, really radical left mayors like Karen Bass or the Mayor of Chicago, or Mayor Wu in Boston that are just constantly out there stoking the fires and fears of what ICE isn’t doing,” Lyons told The Daily Signal, “all they’re doing is hurting their community as well as hurting the law enforcement mission.”

Meanwhile, the corporate media has poured gasoline on the fire by lying about ICE’s efforts to enforce our immigration law at almost every turn.

The stories Director Lyons shares shows the real human cost for both ICE officers and the communities they serve when our political leaders fail to do their duty. It’s a fascinating—sometimes intense—conversation, and we hope you enjoy.

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